Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser[ at ]nospam.freesurf.ch> 12/8/2008 1:23:15 PM Can one convince Vista to interpret a pen move with the mouse button pressed (i.e. in my case the equivalent of a mouse move with the right mouse button pressed) as a scroll command? I once had a utility for Win98 back then that would allow me to scroll in each application by simply moving the mouse with a pressed right button. This was very convenient and intuitive, but alas that program didn't work with XP any more. IMHO something like that would be extremely handy for a tablet, where I find hitting the scroll bars to scroll rather tedious. A few applications have that functionality built-in but I would like to have that for ALL apps. Does Vista (Business / tablet edition) support something like that natively? Or does anyone know a utility that allows this? Michael

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> 12/8/2008 4:22:21 PM Don't have an answer for your specific question, but, know that if your tablet has a fingerprint reader, that can be used to scroll windows. Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser[ at ]nospam.freesurf.ch> 12/8/2008 7:27:28 PM Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote: [Quoted Text] > Don't have an answer for your specific question, but, know that if > your tablet has a fingerprint reader, that can be used to scroll > windows. Hi Beverly, yes, mine has indeed such a feature, but the scrolling using that is rather shaky and extremely unprecise. Using the pen (at least, that's my conviction) would be much quicker and better. Michael

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> 12/8/2008 10:17:59 PM "Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser[ at ]nospam.freesurf.ch> wrote in message news:ehicigTWJHA.4148[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Can one convince Vista to interpret a pen move with the mouse button > pressed (i.e. in my case the equivalent of a mouse move with the right > mouse button pressed) as a scroll command? > > I once had a utility for Win98 back then that would allow me to scroll in > each application by simply moving the mouse with a pressed right button. > This was very convenient and intuitive, but alas that program didn't work > with XP any more. IMHO something like that would be extremely handy for a > tablet, where I find hitting the scroll bars to scroll rather tedious. A > few applications have that functionality built-in but I would like to have > that for ALL apps. > > Does Vista (Business / tablet edition) support something like that > natively? Or does anyone know a utility that allows this? Pen Flicks can scroll vertically - I'm not sure if they can be configured to scroll horizontally as by default that performs back and forward. Just quickly swipe the pen up or down. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> 12/8/2008 11:16:34 PM >> Using the pen (at least, that's my conviction) would be much quicker and better. << Agreed, but, if you are using the pen, why would pulling the scroll button not be an easy option? Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser[ at ]nospam.freesurf.ch> 12/9/2008 12:06:44 AM Paul Smith wrote: [Quoted Text] > >... > Pen Flicks can scroll vertically - I'm not sure if they can be > configured to scroll horizontally as by default that performs back > and forward. Just quickly swipe the pen up or down. Yeah - I have tried these. They are OK for stuff that's vertically organized into pages (like some Word or PDF document), but when it comes to drawing or designing diagrams being able to quickly "grab the paper" and moving it almost as quick as drawing a line is much quicker. MindManager (by MindJet) e.g. supports that and that's simply terrific! Michael

Re: Scrolling with pen button pressed? "Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser[ at ]nospam.freesurf.ch> 12/10/2008 11:23:36 AM Rom wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:06:44 +0100, Michael Moser wrote: > > ... > Wacom Intuos3 Tablet driver supports assigning Pan/Scroll to their pen > buttons. Hm, that sounds like an idea! Does anyone by chance know: can one use that driver also for a MotionComputing LE1700 tablet? From hear-say its screen is also supposed to be a Wacom thingy (or "Wacom-technology-based or whatever). Michael